Banana Chocolate-Chip Oat Cookies

Banana Chocolate-Chip Oat Cookies from Plant-Based Cookbook. These plant-based, vegetarian cookies make the perfect snack. Oats and bananas are great sources for slow-release energy, so these biscuits make a great afternoon pick-me-up!

Introduction

Chewy, coconutty, and studded with chocolate chips, these cookies are a crowd pleaser and cake sale favourite. Banana is a great plant-based egg substitute when baking and adds a sweet, mild banana flavour.

Serves 16

Easy

Ingredients

1

medium very ripe banana, peeled

75g

granulated sugar

60g

brown sugar

80ml

grapeseed oil

1 tsp

vanilla extract

125g

plain flour

170g

rolled oats

1/2 tsp

bicarbonate of soda

1/2 tsp

ground cinnamon

1/4 tsp

sea salt

50g

dark chocolate chips

4 tbsp

unsweetened dried coconut

Instructions

2. In a medium bowl, mash the banana with the sugars, grapeseed oil, and vanilla extract until smooth.

3. Stir the flour, rolled oats, bicarbonate of soda, cinnamon, salt, dark chocolate chips, and coconut into the banana mixture, using your hands to ensure the mixture is well combined. It will be very thick.

4. Scoop 3.75cm (11⁄2in) balls of dough onto the baking sheets, spacing them about 6cm (21⁄2in) apart. Using wet hands, gently pat down the cookies into 5cm (2in) rounds. Some chocolate chips might separate from the mixture, if they do just pat them back into the cookies.

5. Bake for 12–14 minutes or until cookies are golden. Cool for 3 minutes on baking sheets, and then transfer to a wire rack to cool completely. Cookies will keep in an airtight container for up to 5 days (if they last that long!).

Tip: For Nutty Banana-Coco-Oat Cookies, replace the coconut with 40g (11⁄2oz) of finely chopped toasted walnuts or pecans – or use both.